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  • adverb In a sweltering way.

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Examples

  • It was swelteringly hot inside, and the air was filled with the screams of monkeys and tropical birds.

    Airborne Toxic Event + People in Airplanes greygirlbeast 2009

  • Benzes and hummers passing shantytowns, swelteringly hot flatlands near the coast and 40 degree nights lakeside at 6000 feet.

    GUATEMALA!!! 2009

  • On July 18th, 1988, a lady went out cycling around her favourite roads in Ibiza, on a swelteringly hot day.

    [christa päffgen] reasons to continue, reasons to pass away 2009

  • Those who said the world would end by ice are swelteringly wrong – the South is a desert, retired Floridians have run with their golf clubs to the Yukon and West Antarctica has melted, flooding Bangladesh.

    Tom Karl's Station Adjustments « Climate Audit 2007

  • Environment minister Clyde Jackman is in the hot seat these days and it isn't from the swelteringly humid weather.

    It's not easy being green or accountable Ed Hollett 2007

  • And it was swelteringly hot, except at night, when the desert cold seemed capable of cracking bones.

    Archive 2007-07-01 Erika D. 2007

  • And it was swelteringly hot, except at night, when the desert cold seemed capable of cracking bones.

    From My Bookshelf: Prisoners: A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East Divide Erika D. 2007

  • But I had dabbled with swelteringly hot guys before, and all it had gotten me was social infamy and a one-way ticket from Massachusetts to Los Angeles.

    The 310: Boy Trouble Beth Killian 2007

  • But I had dabbled with swelteringly hot guys before, and all it had gotten me was social infamy and a one-way ticket from Massachusetts to Los Angeles.

    The 310: Boy Trouble Beth Killian 2007

  • But I had dabbled with swelteringly hot guys before, and all it had gotten me was social infamy and a one-way ticket from Massachusetts to Los Angeles.

    The 310: Boy Trouble Beth Killian 2007

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